We're not sure what's going on with Sony, but it looks like they've also loosed a 100GB HDR-SR8 Handycam everywhere but the US. That's 38-hours of LP-mode recording, kids when the camcorder ships in July. Europeans and Canadians at least, will have dibs on the SR8 in addition to the same 1080i goodness loosed in The States: the crazy small
HDR-CX7, the 40GB
HDR-SR5, and the 60GB
HDR-SR7. Other than the bigger disk, the SR8 is feature identical to the SR7. So what gives Sony? Of course, we've seen our Canadian brethren receive
special treatment from Sony before. Anyway, next time you cross the Detroit border for smokes and teenage drinking, don't forget to pick up a few US$1670 SR8s for your pals at
Engadget. Thanks.
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posted April 26th 2007 8:04AM
So, do you Americans want to trade a bunch of these HD cameras with us Europeans in exchange for.. say.. those great deals you guys get on virtually *everything* else?
the average person uses their camcorders about 2 hours a year.
yea i agree. i don't use my camcorder all that much. Talk about buyer's remorse.
Well, they say that hell hath no fury like a woman scorned... perhaps this is Sony's "cut-off-your-nose-to-spite-your-face" response to its anticipated failure of Blu-Ray at the hands of Wal*Mart??
Sad, too, as these types of high-tech products are precisely where Sony shines brilliantly... not in the content control business.
You listening, Sony?
We always want what we can't have! Simple minded Americans. Waste more spend more do nothing about real problems.
Anti-Americanism...(yawn). So 20th Century...
I am an American if it was so 20th Century why are we still fighting about it. Just like an American not think before they act but I bet you have an excuse as to why! Our past has an ugly was determining our future especially when we don't learn from our mistakes.
Given that the dollar is massively weak compared to the Euro, looks like you all are getting the better deals now (that is, if you buy from the States)
Is the hard drive on this thing removable?
I want something with a dockable removable hard drive, a USB or wireless interchangeable hard drive.
-Johan
Maybe the Canadians have secretly found a way to edit the AVCHD format.
Yeah, it's called Vegas 7...updating for free on May 1st will include AVCHD editing.
Now you know how it feel to read "Canada Only" and not the US! This is how I feel when you have a contest and it is writting "US resident ONLY!"
HAHA! :P
I am so confused, Marlboro's are like half the price of the cheapest Canadian smokes. Also the states is the only Country in the world where you can die in a war when your 18 and get lung cancer from smoking when your 18 but you cant even drink. Lame. Had I got married in the states I wouldent even have been allowed drinking on my honeymoon.
that is because americans are weak and they can't handle booze until they are 21, and even when they are 21 they are still only drinking piss water compared to our manly Canadian beer
it's availabe in the US!
http://www.sonystyle.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10551&storeId=10151&productId=8198552921665156113&langId=-1